Chapter 330—The World is Waiting
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might
through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
2
Corinthians 4:15
.
The church is God’s appointed agency for the salvation of men. It was
organized for service, and its mission is to carry the gospel to the world.
From the beginning it has been God’s plan that through His church shall be
reflected to the world His fullness and His sufficiency. The members of the
church, those whom He has called out of darkness into His marvelous light,
are to show forth His glory. The church is the repository of the riches of the
grace of Christ; and through the church will eventually be made manifest,
even to “the principalities and powers in heavenly places” (
Ephesians 3:10
),
the final and full display of the love of God....
The church is God’s fortress, His city of refuge, which He holds in a
revolted world....
During ages of spiritual darkness the church of God has been as a city set
on a hill. From age to age, through successive generations, the pure doctrines
of heaven have been unfolding within its borders. Enfeebled and defective
as it may appear, the church is the one object upon which God bestows in a
special sense His supreme regard. It is the theater of His grace, in which He
delights to reveal His power to transform hearts.
As the rays of the sun penetrate to the remotest corners of the globe, so
God designs that the light of the gospel shall extend to every soul upon the
earth.... At this time, when the enemy is working as never before to engross
the minds of men and women, we should be laboring with increasing activity.
Diligently, disinterestedly, we are to proclaim the last message of mercy in
the cities—in the highways and byways. All classes are to be reached. As
we labor we shall meet with different nationalities. None are to be passed
by unwarned. The Lord Jesus was the gift of God to the entire world—not
to the higher classes alone, and not to one nationality, to the exclusion of
others. His saving grace encircles the world. Whosoever will, may drink of
the water of life. A world is waiting to hear the message of present truth.
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